Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - new 2D Prince of Persia

[<3sRichardSimmons]

I think bitching about the lack of historicity in a game about time travel might be missing the forest for the trees.

 

[cvv]

I think I'm calling it now, this is my GOTY 2025. I don't think anything will come close. The end-game movement abilities are butter. The bosses (even after netting most of the upgrades) are no pushovers either. In my book I'd put this above Blasphemous, but below Hollow Knight. I'm nearly @ 80% completion so I'll try to savor this last portion.

Have you tried any of the challenges yet?

 

[Ivan]

Only the first tablet. It hurts a bit more on the hardest mode, b/c if you take trap damage, it still dings 2 bars off your life. I'm waiting until endgame to try them. I really enjoy them though. They remind of endgame Rayman Origins/Super Meat Boy/End Is Nigh

 

[Mountain]

The platforming and combat in this is top-tier, the UI look like a mobile game and the visuals are a bit weak, apart from that awesome time-frozen sunken ship ocean area, but this game is the real deal.

But has anyone tried that Rogue Prince game that the Dead Cells guys are making in early access on Steam? Lost Crown left me hungry for more Prince of Persia, but I'm not sold on that game yet, even if I heard they do big meaningful updates on it regularly.

 

[Elttharion]

I think bitching about the lack of historicity in a game about time travel might be missing the forest for the trees.

The problem isnt historicity, the problem is playing with a brown dude. Literally btw, I am not talking about myself or anything here. When Ubisoft's reputation was at rock bottom and they revealed a new game in a dormant IP with hip hop/rap music and a brown dude with the killmonger hair they pretty much killed the game before release.

 

[JarlFrank]

I'm probably going to play this one day because I hear so much good things about it, but the protagonist's design has zero appeal to me and has likely put off many potential customers. Some ethnically ambiguous brown person with the worst possible haircut (dreadlocks + sideshave combination, doesn't get any worse) isn't who most gamers want to play as.

None of the earlier Prince of Persia games had that issue. They all tried to go for a character design that appealed to the audience at the time.
The original prince was a blond white guy, lmao.
The second game and 3D made him look more like a regular Persian.
The Sands of Time series gave him a more edgy look, but he still had a white-ish middle eastern appearance.
Generally, they tried to go for a look that a majority of the audience could either identify with or would consider cool or interesting.

This one, however, looks actively unappealing and off-putting to a majority of the audience, and is a big reason why the game flopped.
It's very basic marketing. If you want to sell a game, don't put a character on the box art who looks utterly cringe.

 

[Elttharion]

I'm probably going to play this one day because I hear so much good things about it, but the protagonist's design has zero appeal to me and has likely put off many potential customers. Some ethnically ambiguous brown person with the worst possible haircut (dreadlocks + sideshave combination, doesn't get any worse) isn't who most gamers want to play as.

None of the earlier Prince of Persia games had that issue. They all tried to go for a character design that appealed to the audience at the time.
The original prince was a blond white guy, lmao.
The second game and 3D made him look more like a regular Persian.
The Sands of Time series gave him a more edgy look, but he still had a white-ish middle eastern appearance.
Generally, they tried to go for a look that a majority of the audience could either identify with or would consider cool or interesting.

This one, however, looks actively unappealing and off-putting to a majority of the audience, and is a big reason why the game flopped.
It's very basic marketing. If you want to sell a game, don't put a character on the box art who looks utterly cringe.

The MC himself looks vastly better in this outfit

 

[Zariusz]

Everyone looks better without nigger haircut.

 

[catfood]

I'd play the game (not buy it) if the MC were to look like Mister T or some cool nigga like that but I ain't playin no bitch ass gay zoomer nigger with a spiky haircut.

 

[Abu Antar]

JarlFrank Game is ugly as sin, designs are awful, but F me if this isn't unironically the best game of 2024. I tried the demo, and the game plays extremely well, and smooth.

I think that the game was made by the Rayman Origins/Legends team. I wouldn't be surprised, since those two are my favorite platformers in recent years. I am not a fan of Ubisoft, but when they get it right, the get it RIGHT.